At the start of this year, when U.S. president-elect Donald Trump refused to rule out the use of force in taking ownership of Greenland, it was
Environment
China’s Coal Economy Changes Shape
The driving force behind carbon emissions in China is changing. Previously, when China’s coal usage surged in the early 2000s, it correlated with
Taiwan Tech Update: August 2024
Space Industry On August 17, two Taiwanese satellites were launched into space on a Space X rocket. Taiwan Space Agency (TASA) said Toro (信天翁) and
Is the U.K.’s Solar Transition Possible Without China?
As the new Labour government has taken power in the U.K., two policy directions appear to sit in tension with one another. On the one hand,
Is Taiwan’s AI Plan Compatible With Its Renewable Energy Commitments?
In line with new President Lai Ching-te’s (賴清德) inauguration pledge to transform Taiwan into an “AI Island” (人工智慧島), energy put towards artificial
Drowned Homes, Broken Lives: How Tibet’s Tofu Dams Build China’s Green Tyranny
Tibet is often described as the world’s third pole, a land of rising mountains, vertiginous valleys, sliding glaciers and once free-flowing rivers,
The China-U.S. Clean Energy Subsidy Race
The U.S.-China trade battle in the clean energy sector reached a significant legal milestone when China initiated action over the U.S. Inflation
‘Vietnam Is at Least Making an Effort’: China Plumbs New Depths in South China Sea Environmental Catastrophe
States jostling for territorial dominance in the South China Sea have inflicted untold damage on the marine environment, according to a new
China & Human Rights, Mid-February 2024: Western Carmakers and the Long Xinjiang Shadow
In the land where the state has to censor the hashtags to its own propaganda to avoid its new year messages of optimism being shot down by the
Biden Can Tip the Scales on China’s Illegal Pangolin Trade
In a new, tersely worded letter to Congress, U.S. President Joe Biden uses a word that — just a few short years ago — was seemingly foreign to the
COP28: China, the Climate North Korea, Has Its Finger on the Weather Bomb
As the petrostate-presided United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s 28th Conference of Parties (COP28) quarrels its way to a close for
Missed Opportunity: Taiwan’s Election Left Behind on Climate Issues (Again)
Over the course of Taiwan’s presidential election campaign, environmental policy, like many other issues, has struggled to take center stage ahead of











